Head-rest



(No Model.) 7/ C. 1 WILLIAMS I HEAD REST.

No. 568,710. I Patented Sept.'29, 1 896.; I

" ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. IVILLIAMS, OF PERU, INDIANA.

HEAD- REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,710, dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed April 13, 1 8 9 6.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peru, in the county of Miami and State ofv Indiana, have invented a new and useful Head- Rest, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved headrest for barbers chairs; and it has for its object the production of a head-rest the cushion of which may be quickly and conveniently removed from its normal position to a position entirely out of the way of the barber, thus adapting the chair for use in hair-cutting without delay.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved headrest, showing it in the normal position and attached to the ordinary ratchet-bar, a short length of the latter only being shown. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, the cushion being thrown back into the inoperative or lowered position. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the head-rest in place on a chair, the cushion being shown in the normal position in full lines and in the lowered position in dotted lines.

- d, for a purpose hereinafter described.

E represents the cushion-plate, to which an ordinary cushion F is adapted to be secured. To the forward end of plate E is hinged a plate G, provided at its rear end with two parallel arms g, which are pivotally connected to the armsd on cap O, as shown.

H represents alocking-spring, being simply a strip of spring metal preferably bent in the shape shown, secured at one end to the cushion-plate E, and having at or neanits other end a hole h, which, when the cushion Serial No. 587,829. No model.)

is in the normal position, is adapted to take over a stud e, projecting from the rear side of cap 0.

The operation of my improved head-rest is as follows: Assuming the cushion to be in the normal position, as shown in Fig. 1, the plate G will rest on the cap 0 and support the cushion-plate E, the inclined surface D of cap O permitting the cushion to occupy the proper position to receive the head of a person sitting in the chair. It will be noticed that in the normal position of the cushion the stud e on cap 0 has entered the hole h in spring H, thus securely holding the cushion against accidental movement. Now if it is desired to place the cushion in the lowered position the spring II is sprung off the stud e and the cushion is thrown back, when the pivotal connection between the arms 61 and g and between the plate G and the cushion-plate E will cause the cushion to assume the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 and in dotted lines in Fig. 3, the free end of the spring H contacting with the ratchet-barB and maintaining the cushion a slight distance therefrom in a position to be easily grasped when it is desired to return it to the normal position.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a head-rest, the combination, with a chair and a vertically-movable ratchet-bar attached thereto, of a cap adapted to receive the upper end of the ratchet-bar and having two rearwardly-projecting parallel arms, a cushion plate carrying a cushion, a plate hinged at one end to the cushion-plate and having at the other end two parallel arms pivotally connected to the arms projecting from the cap, and a spring adapted to lock the cushion-plate in the normal position, and to bear against the ratchet-bar when the cushion-plate is in the lowered position, substantially as described and for the purposes stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. WVILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

WM. B. MoOLINTIo, Norr N. ANTRIM. 

